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Perspectives on Socio-environmental Transformations in Ancient Europe

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Editors:
  1. Johannes Müller

    1. Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany

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  2. Wiebke Kirleis

    1. Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany

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  3. Nicole Taylor

    1. Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany

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  • First interdisciplinary study on prehistoric socio-environmental transformations
  • Offers innovative theoretical and methodological approaches to past transformations
  • Presents internationally-important archaeological sites and case studies
  • This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. New Perspectives on Socio-environmental Transformations in Past Societies

    • Wiebke Kirleis, Johannes Müller
    Pages 1-7Open Access
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  3. Identification of Anatomies of Socio-environmental Transformation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. Scales of Abstraction: The Kiel Conceptual Approach from Heterogeneous Data to Interpretations

      • Nicole Taylor, Christoph Rinne, Jan Piet Brozio, Jutta Kneisel, Magdalena Wieckowska-Lüth, Jos Kleijne et al.
      Pages 11-33Open Access
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    3. Conceptualising an Anatomy of Transformations: DPSIR, Theorisation, Semiotics and Emergence

      • Artur Ribeiro, Claas Lattmann, Jan-Eric Schlicht, Bernhard Thalheim, Shikharani Sabnis, Victoria Alliata et al.
      Pages 35-61Open Access
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    4. Indicators of Transformation Processes: Change Profiles as a Method for Identifying Indicators

      • Franziska Engelbogen, Oliver Nakoinz, Daniel Knitter, Camilla Zeviani, Simon Stoddart, Steffen Strohm et al.
      Pages 63-102Open Access
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  4. Expressions of Socio-environmental Transformations: From Climate Preconditions to Decision-making

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103
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    2. Patterns of Socio-economic Cultural Transformations in Neolithic and Bronze Age Societies in the Central Northern European Plain

      • Jan Piet Brozio, Jutta Kneisel, Stefanie Schaefer-Di Maida, Julian Laabs, Ingo Feeser, Artur Ribeiro et al.
      Pages 105-142Open Access
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    3. Cereal Agriculture in Prehistoric North-Central Europe and South-East Iberia: Changes and Continuities as Potential Adaptations to Climate

      • Julien Schirrmacher, Ingo Feeser, Dragana Filipović, Hans-Peter Stika, Merle Oelbüttel, Wiebke Kirleis
      Pages 143-174Open Access
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  5. Perspectives on Decision-making Processes in Socio-environmental Transformation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175
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    2. Creation of Cultural Landscapes – Decision-Making and Perception Within Specific Ecological Settings

      • Walter Dörfler, Stefan Dreibrodt, Berit Valentin Eriksen, Ingo Feeser, Daniel Groß, Robert Hofmann et al.
      Pages 177-220Open Access
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    3. Depicting Trypillia: Emergence and Transformation of the Realistic Style

      • Liudmyla Shatilo, Robert Hofmann
      Pages 221-256Open Access
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    4. Scales of Political Practice and Patterns of Power Relations in Prehistory

      • Stefanie Schaefer-Di Maida, Julian Laabs, Maria Wunderlich, Robert Hofmann, Henny Piezonka, Patric-Alexander Kreuz et al.
      Pages 257-339Open Access
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  6. Conclusions: Ancient Change in Europe

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 341-341
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    2. Overarching Patterns of Ancient Transformation in Europe

      • Johannes Müller, Wiebke Kirleis, Jutta Kneisel, Wolfgang Rabbel
      Pages 343-367Open Access
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About this book

This open access book brings together key issues from transformative processes and events across Europe (and in some cases beyond) from 15,000 to 1 BCE. This volume covers the research output produced by the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 1266 "Scales of Transformation" – the first interdisciplinary centre to diachronically investigate transformations in past societies with a summary of their individual aspects from the Late Palaeolithic to the Roman Period. 

Following the introduction, the book is divided into three main sections: In "Identification of anatomies of socio-environmental transformation", the concept of scales of transformations is first explained, and the various parameters of transformational change are identified. This is followed by "Expressions of socio-environmental transformations: from climate preconditions to decision making", in which transformation processes are illustrated with individual examples. The third major part of the book deals with"Perspectives on decision making processes in socio-environmental transformations". In conclusion, the results are framed in a broad temporal framework, and patterns of socio-environmental change are presented across common time frames from the Eastern Mediterranean to Scandinavia. This book is of interest to researchers in archaeology and palaeoecology.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany

    Johannes Müller, Wiebke Kirleis, Nicole Taylor

About the editors

 Johannes Müller (PhD, University of Freiburg, 1990) is a Professor and Director of the Institute for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology at Kiel University, Germany. He is the founding director of the Johanna Mestorf Academy, Speaker of the Collaborative Research Centre ‘Scales of Transformation: Human-environmental Interaction in Prehistoric and Archaic Societies’ and of the Excellence Cluster ‘ROOTS – Social, Environmental, and Cultural Connectivity in Past Societies’. He conducts research on Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe, including the challenge of interlinking natural, social, life sciences, and the humanities within an anthropological approach to archaeology. He has carried out intensive fieldwork in international teams, e.g., on Trypillia mega-sites in Eastern Europa, the Late Neolithic tell site of Okolište in Bosnia-Hercegovina, different Neolithic domestic and burial sites in Northern Germany, and Early Bronze Age sites in Greater Poland. He has also conducted ethnoarchaeological fieldwork, e.g., in India. Within the Kiel Graduate School ‘Human Development in Landscapes’, now the Young Academy of ROOTS, and the Scandinavian Graduate School ‘Dialogues of the Past’, Johannes Müller also supports international PhD projects.

Wiebke Kirleis is Professor of Environmental Archaeology/Archaeobotany at the Institute for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology at Kiel University, Germany. She is deputy speaker of the Collaborative Research Centre ‘Scales of Transformation: Human-Environmental Interaction in Prehistoric and Archaic Societies’ and member of the Cluster of Excellence ‘ROOTS’. As an archaeobotanist, she is interested in all kinds of plant-related human activities, be they subsistence strategies or food processing, with their socio-cultural implications, as well as the reconstruction of human-environment interactions in the past. Geographically, her research areas span from northern Europe all way to Indonesia.


Nicole Taylor is one of the Scientific Coordinators of the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 1266 “Scales of Transformation”. An archaeologist by training, she received her doctorate as a Marie Curie Fellow in the EU project “Forging Identities: The Mobility of Culture in Bronze Age Europe”. Her research has focused on the European Bronze Age, primarily in Central Europe, with foci on settlement archaeology and questions on prehistoric identities through the combination of social and isotopic analyses.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Perspectives on Socio-environmental Transformations in Ancient Europe

  • Editors: Johannes Müller, Wiebke Kirleis, Nicole Taylor

  • Series Title: Quantitative Archaeology and Archaeological Modelling

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53314-3

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-53313-6Published: 28 February 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-53316-7Published: 28 February 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-53314-3Published: 27 February 2024

  • Series ISSN: 2366-5998

  • Series E-ISSN: 2366-6005

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 367

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Archaeology

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